The Sound & Vision podcast from KEXP features interviews, panels, reporting and commentary that digs into the stories behind the music, with in-depth discussion of the most important issues facing music and arts communities. Sound & Vision is hosted by Emily Fox.
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James Bookert used to tour with a well-known bluegrass punk band, Whiskey Shivers; he is now making new music and community at his day job at a local liquor store.
For quite a while now, I’ve been booking the KEXP Community Partnership Benefit Shows, but not once has one of the benefits fallen on my birthday. Well, this year I’m lucky enough to have this dream come true. So this Saturday, July 5th, I’m inviting you to come out and celebrate 36 years of my exi…
Producer Sam J. Leeds talks with people who remember the harp and how it created community in the neighborhood.
Dusty Henry dives into It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy, the voice of what was really happening in America, particularly within Black communities.
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With a long, community-driven career in music, Courtney Marie Andrews’ Grammy nomination for her latest album, Old Flowers, feels more than well earned.
Drew Pine reports on what it is about the Seattle area’s Vashon Island that attracts the creative type.
The First Nations Hip Hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids talk about addressing generational trauma in their music and being the change they want to see in their community.
KEXP speaks to frontman Alex Maas of The Black Angels about their latest album, Wilderness of Mirrors.
Hidmo was a community center cleverly disguised as an Eritrean restaurant in Seattle's Central District, and a mecca for Seattle hip-hop, a space co-created by the late Rahwa Habte. DJs Gabriel Teodros and Larry Mizell, Jr bring together a playlist of some of Rahwa's favorite artists who graced the…
Mustafa recently released his debut album, When Smoke Rises. At its core, the album is an expression of love – love for friends he lost to gun violence, and love for his community in Regent Park, Toronto.
JusMoni shares her story – and by extension, a deeper story about Seattle. Moni and her peers reflect on Hidmo, the intersecting identities with her family that she channels through her performance, motherhood, and her community and social justice work.
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Nicholas Galanin is the force behind musical projects Ya Tseen, Indian Agent, and Silver Jackson. Based out of Sitka, Alaska, he creates art – both musical and physical – from and for his Tlingit community.
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KEXP seems to get gayer every year, and this year's Big Gay Podcast, featuring twenty tracks spanning more than 40 years, is no exception. With everything from vintage queer country to an electronic interpretation of a black metal classic, El Toro's 2014 roundup of songs by, for, and about the LGB…
In this episode, Larry Mizell, Jr. hosts an extended conversation with multi-disciplinary artist and founding Black Constellation member, Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes. The two discuss not just Alley-Barnes’ work, but the pivotal art and community work of his parents, the engine of erasure that resounds th…
